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If anything, it would be seeing a surge because of AI. LibreOffice cli is the go to method for doing office documents -> pdf -> image rendering for agent doc re

by athorax 26d ago

If anything, it would be seeing a surge because of AI. LibreOffice cli is the go to method for doing office documents -> pdf -> image rendering for agent doc rendering feedback.

VCFundedGenYer 26d ago
Highly doubt this. Do you have a source or numbers on that bold claim?
- hobofan 26d ago
  https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527396 (and I can also just add that it's my go-to tool for that exact use-case, and used it in a dozen different client projects)
- athorax 26d ago
  Not sure what is "bold" about that claim, soffice is used in a ton of "document generation skills" and as soon as those tools start making into people's CI pipelines there will inevitably be spikes in download activity. https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/docx/SKILL.md https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/docx/S...
ToucanLoucan 26d ago
Tbh I wonder if it's related to AI at all, or just a consequence of Microsoft being institutionally unable to ship working software anymore and people are finally tired of spending so much money for such garbage products. Buddy of mine tried to use some Exchange tools to troubleshoot a mail flow issue this morning. Puts in his query parameters (start/end date, and a user's email address). 1774 results, and the table below that shows "No data available." It'd be fucking comical if his company wasn't spending tens of thousands per month on their 365 infrastructure that's seemingly broken in new and exciting ways every. single. fucking. day.
tcdent 26d ago
Came here to say this as well. It's the obvious all-encompassing free office document processing suite and LLMs know how to utilize it well. Codex bundles it with the desktop app as well for the same purpose.
aurareturn 26d ago
Yep. I use it locally for rendering PDFs via LLM tool use.
- robdar 26d ago
  how does it compare to using pandoc, which is what I currently use for rendering PDFs via LLMs?

by athorax 26d ago

If anything, it would be seeing a surge because of AI. LibreOffice cli is the go to method for doing office documents -> pdf -> image rendering for agent doc rendering feedback.

VCFundedGenYer 26d ago

Highly doubt this. Do you have a source or numbers on that bold claim?

hobofan 26d ago
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527396 (and I can also just add that it's my go-to tool for that exact use-case, and used it in a dozen different client projects)
athorax 26d ago
Not sure what is "bold" about that claim, soffice is used in a ton of "document generation skills" and as soon as those tools start making into people's CI pipelines there will inevitably be spikes in download activity. https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/docx/SKILL.md https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/docx/S...

ToucanLoucan 26d ago

Tbh I wonder if it's related to AI at all, or just a consequence of Microsoft being institutionally unable to ship working software anymore and people are finally tired of spending so much money for such garbage products. Buddy of mine tried to use some Exchange tools to troubleshoot a mail flow issue this morning. Puts in his query parameters (start/end date, and a user's email address). 1774 results, and the table below that shows "No data available." It'd be fucking comical if his company wasn't spending tens of thousands per month on their 365 infrastructure that's seemingly broken in new and exciting ways every. single. fucking. day.

tcdent 26d ago

Came here to say this as well. It's the obvious all-encompassing free office document processing suite and LLMs know how to utilize it well. Codex bundles it with the desktop app as well for the same purpose.

aurareturn 26d ago

Yep. I use it locally for rendering PDFs via LLM tool use.

robdar 26d ago
how does it compare to using pandoc, which is what I currently use for rendering PDFs via LLMs?